In the book Contact the Machine when finally operated, created a wormhole connection to the Earth. The Caretakers told Ellie this "contact"/connection would be used to destroy humans if they decided to be bad Spacers/Galactic-Universe Citizens. Of course The Caretaker/Ellie's Dad? said it in a more diplomatic way. In the book he didn't say "small steps, small steps" either.

Interesting it was a Day The Earth Stood Still warning. Except The Caretakers would not "burn to a cinder". Why waste a good Planet?

Anyways, besides The Warning or The Welcome(if you get your act together)the other revelations were Love, Pi, and The Circle. And it seemed to imply there might be a GOD after all. The beings who originally created and built the wormhole connections throughout The Galaxy and Universe had not been seen/heard from in Billions of years. And The Caretakers(the beings who met Ellie and the four other passengers in The Machine(yeah-Movie, just Ellie; Book, The Machine had 5 passengers), they had been doing their thing for millions of years.

I liked reading his other books Billions and Billions and Pale Blue Dot much better.

Yes but not 100%. Some are here for the camarderie of like minded people(slightly wacky with a techy lean), some for the RAC competition, and some to have a rant about things they wouldn't dare say in real life! But for most of us that is the icing on the cake, it's the original search that matters most.

Of course we are not crunching CIA data, don't be daft. As this is an open public project, any Russian spy would have access to the same data ......

Yes but not 100%. Some are here for the camarderie of like minded people(slightly wacky with a techy lean), some for the RAC competition, and some to have a rant about things they wouldn't dare say in real life! But for most of us that is the icing on the cake, it's the original search that matters most.

Of course we are not crunching CIA data, don't be daft. As this is an open public project, any Russian spy would have access to the same data ......

Ditto Chris...
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My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.